Preventing the Auto Update thing?

Julian. wrote:

I have several Adobe programs (all paid for) but I get annoyed at Adobe thinking they can pop up an "update message" and expect me to stop critical work whenever they feel I need an update!

CS2 was easy enough with registry edit but the CS3 suite? a major interference to my work.

JA

You can stop it but the updates are relevant or they would not be available.

You can tick the box and download when the internet connection is idle. or hide the screen when you work, so the download is in the background.

From my point of view all the updates issues for CS3 have been beneficial. There have been about 100mb so far which is not very much.

"Julian." wrote:

I have several Adobe programs (all paid for) but I get annoyed at Adobe thinking they can pop up an "update message" and expect me to stop critical work whenever they feel I need an update!

CS2 was easy enough with registry edit but the CS3 suite? a major interference to my work.

JA

Registry edit? how about telling FIREWALL not to allow it?

"Joel" wrote in message
"Julian." wrote:

I have several Adobe programs (all paid for) but I get annoyed at Adobe thinking they can pop up an "update message" and expect me to stop critical
work whenever they feel I need an update!

CS2 was easy enough with registry edit but the CS3 suite? a major interference to my work.

JA

Registry edit? how about telling FIREWALL not to allow it?

That’s a messy fix. What I am attempting to achieve is preventing Adobe from poping up a message about upgrades while I’m in the middle of doing something else, just because I start an Adobe program like when I want to create or read a PDF in Acrobat while I’m working on a web page. It is very annoying.

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How about removing the tick from "Automatically check for Adobe updates"

"Brian K" <iibntgyea4 > wrote in message

How about removing the tick from "Automatically check for Adobe updates"

I ticked "remove all" from the auto update window and it seems to have stopped. Now I can manage when I update things. I have always worked with the notion that you should never "fix what is not broken".

JA

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I clicked Help, Updates, Preferences. Then you will see "Automatically check for Adobe updates"

"Julian." found these unused words:

"Brian K" <iibntgyea4 > wrote in message

How about removing the tick from "Automatically check for Adobe updates"

I ticked "remove all" from the auto update window and it seems to have stopped. Now I can manage when I update things. I have always worked with the notion that you should never "fix what is not broken".
JA

Yeah, that’s why you -=leave=- ticked the "Send me Offers of other products", "Add me to an Email list"" and "Automatically Charge my Credit Card for future issues, updates, series, etc."

You’re a product manager’s dream. <G>

AutoUpdate can be totally managed — when and if it happens, which applications are effected by what, and the whole nine yards. Here’s what to do:

1. Search your machine for an application named Adobe Updater. You’ll find it.

2. Run it. You might want to kill me at this moment, because the application will instantly hit the Adobe servers, check your serial numbers against theirs, (you don’t have to be registered, just authorized, which has nothing to do with your ‘secret information’) and looks like it’s updating all your Adobe apps. It’s not.

3. A list (checkbox) will appear containing every relative Adobe app anywhere on your machine — even if you have apps spread out over different drives.

4. Click the Preferences button that appears underneath that list. You’ll find all the controls in that dialog.

Sorry that it’s buried so deep in the software. I actually never heard any major discussions of the preferences dialogs and controls (for the update app) being buried — but apparently it is if you guys (in the non-gender sense) are having problems with AutoUpdate stopping your work. There’s no way this has to continue to happen.

See? Adobe wasn’t the thoughtless bastard some of you thought they were.

Gary in tampa

On 7/18/07 8:55 PM, in article 469eaa4e$0$28429$,
"Julian." wrote:

"Joel" wrote in message
"Julian." wrote:

I have several Adobe programs (all paid for) but I get annoyed at Adobe thinking they can pop up an "update message" and expect me to stop critical
work whenever they feel I need an update!

CS2 was easy enough with registry edit but the CS3 suite? a major interference to my work.

JA

Registry edit? how about telling FIREWALL not to allow it?
That’s a messy fix. What I am attempting to achieve is preventing Adobe from poping up a message about upgrades while I’m in the middle of doing something else, just because I start an Adobe program like when I want to create or read a PDF in Acrobat while I’m working on a web page. It is very annoying.

And no, it doesn’t need registry edits. Nothing needs registry edits. CS3 has been in the hands of hundreds of people — people outside Adobe and not paid a dime from them — for a year before December 15th when the software went public-beta. They’re members of internal testing teams that are specialists within specific industries — imaging, color correction, advertising and what we think is the entire world turns out to be only part of those teams. They’re also running CatScans, Satellite imagery systems, and dozens of other fields none of us know anything about. And they test day and night in their own labs, fields, printing companies, ad agencies — you name it. And they look for stuff that’s broken so bad it stops people from making money. By the time the software ships, it works.

That’s not to say that there aren’t things wrong with the software. There’s millions of lines — millions — of code there, but anybody has to admit that the good stuff FAR outweighs the bad.

Advice for the sensible might be to look deeper in the software to see if your problem hasn’t been encountered somewhere, by somebody that thinks the same way you do — but felt it important to find out what the problem was. Everybody knows how important everybody else’s time is, and the sensible might not complain that a) their lives are somehow more important than others’ and b) other humans actually did something that took them their own personal time just to piss that (a) important and highly-unique person off.

But then again, people make up their own realities, don’t they?

On 7/18/07 8:55 PM, in article 469eaa4e$0$28429$,
"Julian." wrote:

"Joel" wrote in message
"Julian." wrote:

I have several Adobe programs (all paid for) but I get annoyed at Adobe thinking they can pop up an "update message" and expect me to stop critical
work whenever they feel I need an update!

CS2 was easy enough with registry edit but the CS3 suite? a major interference to my work.

JA

Registry edit? how about telling FIREWALL not to allow it?
That’s a messy fix. What I am attempting to achieve is preventing Adobe from poping up a message about upgrades while I’m in the middle of doing something else, just because I start an Adobe program like when I want to create or read a PDF in Acrobat while I’m working on a web page. It is very annoying.